The Cady Chase
May 2007
To Sing and Dance | Jun 2007 | Apr 2007

And now for your entertainment

05/20/07 18:29 Filed in: Recital



Saturday brought us Cady's very first official dance recital, the Spring Showcase 2007. Cady was able to perform in several different dances. *proud parent bragging moment* Note that Cady looks much younger than the other girls in her group. Well, Cady is the youngest, and was the only girl in her age group asked to perform in the event with the girls from the next class up. Certainly she needs work, but she is young to be pressing details, and I only care that she truly loved the dance.

Sadly, as you will see (or have seen) on the video that during her second performance, her headband went down, and her OCD kicked in as any 2 year old girl can, and she missed out on a larger part of her favorite of the dances, but she loved it, and showed a lot of promise for future dances.

We're very proud, and I think you will enjoy the video.

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Not just about Cady anymore...

05/16/07 19:17 Filed in: Family
On Sunday, May 13th, (sometime in the evening, you can't really expect me, a man, to know to ask all the details) Cady lost her status as the youngest in the family. How appropriate that on a Mother's Day, my niece would have her very own little girl.

Grace Noel
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Congratulations, Kris, she's definitely a pretty girl.

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Who's Melody?

05/04/07 21:24 Filed in: Referral
Scott picked up Cadence from pre-school today, and was confronted by one of the teachers who quickly asked, "Who's Melody??" A few other teachers gathered around to hear his answer.
Apparently, while the teacher read a book today, it involved airplanes. And Cadence announced that we're going on an airplane to get Melody.
I wonder when she's going to be able to understand how long two years really is.
Her saving grace is that she lives in the moment, and would just as soon take a bubble bath as go to China these days. But she really likes the idea of a baby sister.
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We have LID

05/02/07 20:59 Filed in: Referral
For friends and family unfamiliar with the terms for adopting from China, DTC stands for Documents to China - the date that all the documents are sent to China from the agency. LID stands for Log In Date - that's the date that CCAA (China Center for Adoption Affairs) has logged in all the documents to their office and the official wait begins. Currently, the wait time is expected to be 20-24 months from LID till the date that we receive a referral. It's a long wait, but life is so much easier waiting for Melody while we have Cadence keeping us busy.

We were DTC for Melody on March 28th. I was beginning to think that we wouldn't find out our LID till June or July because I'd called our agency just the other day and the China co-ordinator at our adoption agency said that they haven't even found out the LIDs for their January clients yet. That's not to say that they wouldn't have one already, just that the agency co-ordinator didn't have access to knowing the LIDs yet.

Well, that was just last Friday. Ask and ye shall receive!

We got a call today that we have a LID of April 14th for Melody. I didn't think that would really make much difference to me, except for the fact that I would actually KNOW that we have one....But, OMG we have a LID!!! I wanted to cry when I found out that we have a LID for Melody. A date. A date that makes this piece of our lives different than any other date. A time frame to track. It became more personal...more real, knowing the LID for Melody.
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